Carrier profile · USDOT 387213 · MC-158735 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

USART CO INC

DBA USACO

53 power unitsavg 7.7 yrNational · 30 statesRANDOLPH, MA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-158735 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksusart.comFMCSA SAFER

Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 15.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 65 vehicle and 108 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

10.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 8.5 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

104 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 8

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 53-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
53
Inspections · 24 mo
108
Annualized
≈54 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

34%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
3%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving40 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance17 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 8 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

36 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 24, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

28ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
1False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 79% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 32 total · 3 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252022
20232002
20221001
20211001
20191001
20181001
20172002
20162012
20152002
20143023
20132012
20121001
20103012
20093013
20081001
20061001
20043003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 10, 2026OH00Yes
Apr 9, 2025NM04Yes
Feb 3, 2025OR01Yes
Sep 22, 2023MI00Yes
Jan 4, 2023MN00Yes
Mar 22, 2022MO00Yes
Aug 5, 2021SC00Yes
Feb 3, 2019MN00Yes
Dec 10, 2018NY00Yes
Jul 24, 2017MA00Yes
Feb 19, 2017DE00Yes
Oct 24, 2016MD01Yes
Feb 8, 2016IN00Yes
Aug 11, 2015UT00Yes
Feb 23, 2015CT00Yes
Nov 10, 2014MO01Yes
Jun 12, 2014IL00Yes
Feb 7, 2014CA01Yes
Feb 27, 2013CA00Yes
Jan 24, 2013TN02Yes
Feb 20, 2012WY00Yes
Dec 29, 2010CO00Yes
Sep 3, 2010PA01No
Jul 22, 2010MO00Yes
Jul 20, 2009GA02Yes